Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2013-09-04

Re: ICMPv6: treat dest unreachable codes 5 and 6 as EACCES, not EPROTO

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2013-09-04 02:12:26

From: Jiri Bohac <redacted>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:18:45 +0200
RFC 4443 has defined two additional codes for ICMPv6 type 1 (destination
unreachable) messages:
        5 - Source address failed ingress/egress policy
	6 - Reject route to destination

Now they are treated as protocol error and icmpv6_err_convert() converts them
to EPROTO.

RFC 4443 says:
	"Codes 5 and 6 are more informative subsets of code 1."

Treat codes 5 and 6 as code 1 (EACCES)

Btw, connect() returning -EPROTO confuses firefox, so that fallback to
other/IPv4 addresses does not work:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910773

Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <redacted>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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